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You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser
- bgirard 10mo agoWow, crazy to see this childhood classic load and run seamlessly in my browser. Better than on my old hot wheels pc.
- properbrew 10mo agoReally cool, amazed that the old cheats work as well!
- HardwareLust 10mo agoWow that worked shockingly well on my cheap Moto phone!
- striking 10mo agohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstargames.gtavc https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstarga... has been available since 2012! The only difference here is some web browser overhead, which isn't much anymore...
- christkv 10mo agoSo awesome
- mmaunder 10mo agoWow!!
- wiseowise 10mo agoStill remember how my PC was freezing on VC 20 years ago, and now I can play it in a browser in 120 fps. Wild. Big kudos to https://github.com/SugaryHull/re3/tree/miami https://github.com/SugaryHull/re3/tree/miami on which this is based on. Wholeheartedly agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community can keep games alive instead of letting them rot.
- tobyjsullivan 10mo ago> agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community Note that GTA V is now 12 years old and still sells ~20M copies per year. So that’s going to be a tough sell in some cases. You could argue it’s still actively developed, particularly due to online, so fair enough. But that’s also sort of true for Vice City. They’ve released mobile version (playable on Netflix) over the past few years at least. Nevertheless, I’d be thrilled if that was a standard practice.
- ASalazarMX 10mo agoFallout 4 is ten years old and just recently was sold again as a remake, basically a small update with pre-included mods. Skyrim is 14 years old and I'm sure it will be resold at least one more time before TES VI is released. Moddable games are like prescription pills that add one ingredient to a patent-expired recipe, to repatent it as new.
- SSLy 10mo ago> Skyrim is 14 years old and I'm sure it will be resold at least one more time before TES VI is released. you wouldn't believe what just did hit Nintendo Switch 2's eShop.
- integralid 10mo ago>Nevertheless, I’d be thrilled if that was a standard practice. Or we could shorten copyright to something reasonable, like 15 years after release.
- hiccuphippo 10mo agoI'd extend it to all copyright but instead of "active development" make it a nominal fee every 10 years, so anyone that doesn't mind their work becoming public domain 10, 20, 30, etc years later can easily let it go.
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- Ram10- 10mo agoWine in the browser would be so interesting for retro software.
- pipes 10mo agoI came here hoping to see some technical explanation of what this is. E.g.JavaScript emulation of PS2 version? Recompilation + wasm? Something else entirely?
- Hamuko 10mo agoSays reVC in the description, so it's been decompiled from the original Vice City binary and then reimplemented in JavaScript/WebAssembly.
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- tsukurimashou 10mo agobetter than the original rockstar PC port...
- MinimalAction 10mo agoCrazy! Brought back the summers of my childhood where I mindlessly roamed around the Vice City with my custom MP3 list of songs. For so long, I was stuck on flying the RC helicopter in an abandoned skyscraper level. It has been years, and now I have the itch to try that again! Thanks to whoever made this possible. There goes my weekend.
- amarant 10mo agoThis got me thinking that one of my childhood favourites ought to be playable in the browser too, and sure enough, here's GTA 2 if anyone else is as old as I am: https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto2/ https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto2/
- doublerabbit 10mo agoCarmageddon is another old classic of mine, https://dos.zone/carmageddon https://dos.zone/carmageddon I used to watch my older brother play this when I was younger and he always hid the CD.
- amarant 10mo agoOh damn, my cousin had carmageddon! We'd stay up all night long playing it when I visited him! Now I gotta find that other game he had, but I don't remember what it was called. It was kinda like reverse GTA: you played as a female cop and you had to stop the criminals. Iirc there were corrupt cops later on in the game.
- dashzebra 10mo agowsdfqfcf If you know, you know.
- jtokoph 10mo agoThis is great. I also played the heck out of GTA2. I had a lot of fun attempting to mod the textures to get my favorite cars in the game. Respect is everything.
- superasn 10mo agoThis works amazing well. I started playing and just 5 minutes in, I was completely hooked and ended up playing for almost half hour. It could be that I'm a bit old-school, but this really seemed to confirm that ready to play fun gameplay trumps realistic graphics any day!
- systemtest 10mo agoVice City was originally planned as an add-on to GTA III. Development time was 18 months. Incredible that they put out such a great game in so little time.
- emilbratt 10mo agoPushing the nostalgic effect aside, I agree. The gameplay is the important part and is why I can still play snes games to this day.
- tigranbs 10mo agoLinks times out, seems the host wasn't ready for the HN traffic!
- rohan_ 10mo agois this some WASM magic?
- lawlessone 10mo agoFeels pretty smooth on my phone for something that's running in the browser.
- agentifysh 10mo agothis is one of the most impressive thing i've see on HN how is this done ?? what engine is used ? it feels exactly like the original also the whole website dos zone seems to have all these browser versions of half life etc ??? how are people making these things and how are they legal ? so many questions
- kg 10mo agoFor the "how" see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330258 - the game has been reverse engineered. There are reverse engineering and reimplementation projects like this for a lot of older games, i.e. Mario 64, Diablo and at least one of the Sonic games Is it legal? Well, the reverse engineering typically is as long as you follow the rules, but hosting all the game assets on a public web server so you can play it probably isn't.
- charcircuit 10mo agoreVC is clear copyright infringement distributing a derivative work based off the code of the game.
- desdenova 10mo agoIt was already brought down by Rockstar as well. This isn't just reverse engineering, it's a decompiled source from the original binary.
- sva_ 10mo agoIf I had to guess, by being hosted in Russia they probably ignore the legality.
- bossyTeacher 10mo ago> how are they legal ? they are not, but then again so are many things. We choose what laws to enforce (see 18-20 year olds drinking, unmarried cohabitation, etc). just because it is not legal does not mean that law enforcement will care.
- _fat_santa 10mo agoHaven’t tried this yet but I literally just loaded the OG PC version on my steam deck. The originals are amazing but I have to say for all their faults, the Definitive Editions figured out the camera. For anyone that played the OG versions you were stuck with the “follow cam” unless you had a PC + Mouse
- nix0n 10mo agoThere are QOL mods[0] available for that version to get the camera (and controller in general, and other stuff) working better. Can't speak to the Deck HW or Steam OS specifically, but the SilentPatch and GInput mods have been working great for me on Proton under Linux Mint. [0]https://cookieplmonster.github.io/mods/gta-vc/ https://cookieplmonster.github.io/mods/gta-vc/
- sergiotapia 10mo agoIt runs insanely well what the hell!
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo agoI'm so old that GTA in 3D still feels new.
- admtal 10mo agoI wish all ps2 games were playable and available on such a site
- RobRivera 10mo agoI kneel
- Stevvo 10mo agoSaw some funny bugs I don't remember from the original, but it looks a lot better.
- pinus-cembra 10mo agoWeb browsers really have come a long way. Will be interesting to see where we'll be in 10 to 20 years.
- ozozozd 10mo agoSensible Soccer is so true to the original. It's even impossible to quit it!
- sehugg 10mo agoGTA Vice City was released for iOS devices in 2012, and IIRC it ran pretty well. Not surprising that it runs well with WASM/WebGPU, given the massive increase in GPU performance. I'd imagine that the CPU-bound paths are well-optimized for 2002 Pentiums.
- al_borland 10mo agoI just re-downloaded Vice City on my iPhone yesterday. It runs well, but the on-screen controls are, well, on-screen controls. That limits how much I actually want to play it.
- hoten 10mo agoDoes a USB/bluetooth gamepad work on that version? Or are people really out there playing GTA on a tiny touch screen?
- al_borland 10mo agoI just tried an 8bitdo controller I had lying around. It does work, but the controls seem all wrong and need to be remapped. I may do that. I never carry a controller with me. I'd love to just be able to pick up and play in a waiting room or something without needing to plan for it or having an awkward setup. The MCON looked promising, but still probably bigger than what I'd want to carry around.
- Exuma 10mo agoWhich was the GTA where you rode around on a dirtbike out in the california mountains, and there was like bootleggers and stuff.... man i have serious memories of that game
- dailen 10mo agoAnd it consumes less RAM than msn.com
- wmoxam 10mo agoAh shit, here we go again
- sho_hn 10mo agoI did this with Tomb Raider once: https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu/ https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu/ (Here with a fan level to avoid copyright concerns.)
- kaycebasques 10mo agoIs something similar available for GTA3?
- onion2k 10mo agoIt's at least 20 years since I last played Vice City, and I can still remember my way around the map. That's weird.
- dom96 10mo agoThe soundtrack is the best part of this game and I'm surprised this site is just allowing anyone to play this, with the soundtrack as-is.
- coldcode 10mo agoAmazing it runs in a browser.
- cluckindan 10mo agoSite connects to yandex.ru
- ahmadforoughi 10mo agoit's really cool to play with. i really like the performance as well - better than what i expected
- mandown2308 10mo agoAmazing amazing!
- alamortsubite 10mo agoThe Atari BASIC intro is a nice touch.
- ionwake 10mo agoIncredible! Not sure if I am just bad at the game, but I dont see any blood and the hookers dont get in the car. Maybe Im just remembering this wrong.
- moondev 10mo agoI loved playing this but could never figure out how to beat it https://dos.zone/norton-commander/ https://dos.zone/norton-commander/
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- julianlam 10mo agoDoes this version still corrupt your game file if you save at the ice cream factory lol
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- akrimony 10mo agoDo we have this for far cry as well?
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- 698969 10mo agoIf you don't have the original executable on hand: localStorage.setItem('vcsky.haveOriginalGame', "true") I haven't checked further than the third mission
- em-bee 10mo agodoesn't seem to work
- hbs18 10mo agoRefresh the page after adding the flag
- em-bee 10mo agoi thought i had refreshed, but apparently not. it worked when i tried again, after i had closed the browser.
- dahateb 10mo agoyou have to call it on the cdn page: https://cdn.dos.zone/vcsky/release/vc-sky-en-v5/game.js https://cdn.dos.zone/vcsky/release/vc-sky-en-v5/game.js reload on the original page an then it works
- chistev 10mo agoThis is incredible!
- intuxikated 10mo agoDoes this one also crash when hitting people with a hammer? I got that error when running reVC on the steam deck, especially during the union strike mission
- dhruvib 10mo agoyes
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- akshatchoudhary 10mo agoi want gta vice city
- em-bee 10mo agothe game has been removed by a DMCA take down request